Hello Jim, 2011/6/2 Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com>
> > On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > > > I'd like to think that no one is working on LibreOffice merely because > > they have no choice, or that giving everyone a choice is seen as being > > antagonistic. If truly 100% of the LibreOffice members prefer TDF to > > Apache, then you have nothing to worry about, right? If some prefer > > Apache, then you have worries, if you choose to worry about such things, > > but I don't take it as a moral fault in Apache or in the authors of this > > proposal that we are offering an open source development choice that some > > developers might prefer over TDF. > > > > I don't see this as 2 "competing" projects... well, maybe right > now it is, but what it is "now" doesn't mean that is how it > should be, or will turn out to be. > > One simple example: Imagine the Apache project as the core > "guts" of OOo, the framework. With TDF working on parts > that extend and enhance OOo, in a modular fashion, for > a particular set of end-users... or something like that. > Or something different from that. > > What I'm trying to say is simple 1-1 duplication is stupid, at > least in my mind. I don't see that as our only option; in fact, > I see that as a really short-sighted one. We can all certainly > do much better than that. > It is an honor to be on an ASF list, first of all, and I'd like to thank everyone for joining this discussion. To answer Jim's email, I think that while OOo and LibreOffice don't have to be competitors, I would not necessarily want to decide why we should split development efforts. I 'm sure the Apache Foundation has experience in dealing with Free and Open Source Software projects but I don't think it make sense to to split communities and give a specific role to each of them. I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished engineer from IBM but who has never contributed code to OpenOffice, if I recall. I'm a bit surprised by this as TDF has now over 200 developers, paid and unpaid and I was under the impression that this number was not deemed to be enough by IBM. Best, Charles-H. Schulz. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
